Record STMT-W602861Aspirational

2024 Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Strategy State lawWestern Europe · ESadopted

The 2024 Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Spain sets out a comprehensive framework to accelerate the development, expansion, and responsible use of artificial intelligence across the public and private sectors. Structured around three key pillars, the strategy focuses on reinforcing national infrastructure including supercomputing and sustainable data centers, fostering AI adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises and public administration, and promoting a transparent, humanistic approach to AI governance through the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA).

Summary and content fields are drawn from the document text and are pending editorial review.

Who issued it

Gobierno de EspañaGovernment (executive) · ES

Lead issuer

Legal forceAspirational

Under whose authorityState law

Judged fromfull text

Who it governs

National governmentRegulatorsPublic sector bodiesCompaniesAI developers and providersResearchers and academics

This strategy is for policymakers, public sector bodies, researchers, enterprises, and AI developers seeking guidance on Spain's national technological roadmap and regulatory framework.

Sectors

Cross-sectorPublic administrationTelecommunications and digital services · language technologies and data processing centers

What the document contains

What's covered

The document addresses national infrastructure investments in supercomputing and data processing, the development of foundation language models in Spanish and co-official languages, the enhancement of AI skills and talent, public sector integration, SME support programs, cybersecurity laws, and the governance and supervisory role of AESIA.

What's missing

Not stated

Key takeaways

Spain's 2024 AI Strategy aims to accelerate national AI development while ensuring alignment with European regulations and human rights.
Pillar 1 strengthens foundational capabilities including supercomputing upgrades like MareNostrum 5, sustainable data processing, the ALIA language model family, and talent development.
Pillar 2 drives AI adoption across public administration and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) while enhancing cybersecurity frameworks.
Pillar 3 establishes the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) as a central oversight and think-and-do tank body for ethical, safe, and trustworthy AI.
The strategy commits substantial public and EU recovery funds to finance data repositories, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and specialized sector nodes.

Principles it states

Transparent, ethical, accountable and humanistic AIRespect for human rights and promotion of technological securitySocial and economic inclusionTrustworthiness and public-private partnership

Outline

· Lever 1: Boost Investment in Supercomputing
· Lever 2: Generate Storage Capacities with Sustainability
· Lever 3: Generate Models and corpora for public infrastructure in language models
· Lever 4: Fostering talent in AI
· Lever 5: Boost AI in the Public Sector
· Lever 6: Help with the Expansion of AI in the Private Sector, Particularly in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
· Lever 7: Developing a Cybersecurity Framework
· Lever 8: Develop the AESIA’s functions

Issued2024

Length21,403 words · 68 pages

FormatNot recorded

Scopenational

How it scores

Pending review

Each score is backed by a quote verified against the document text. Editorial review has not yet confirmed them.

Accountability

4/5

Clear responsibility for AI outcomes

responsible for building a dialogue between the scientific community, industry and civil society, establishing a common ground where the concerns and aspirations of each sector can be reconciled.

Foreword

screening score · 2026-10-23

Fairness

3/5

Non-discrimination and equitable treatment

Responsible AI implies the development and implementation of intelligent systems that adhere to sound normative principles, safeguarding human rights, equality, privacy and non-discrimination.

Pillar 3

screening score · 2026-10-23

Human Dignity

3/5

Respect for the inherent worth of persons

This approach takes on particular relevance given the commitment to ensuring that this transition is carried out with respect for human rights

Prologue

screening score · 2026-10-23

Privacy

3/5

Protection of personal data and private life

Data governance will ensure the anonymisation and privacy of information, as well as due compliance with the specific regulations applicable to each case, throughout the entire data lifecycle.

Lever 5

screening score · 2026-10-23

Enforcement

4/5

Consequences and compliance mechanisms with real force

The Agency should therefore develop the capacity for oversight of high-risk AI systems to ensure compliance, and more specifically supervision, and wherever appropriate, sanctions, as required by the European regulation.

Lever 8

screening score · 2026-10-23

Impact Assessment

4/5

Required assessment of an AI system's risks/impacts before or during use

As part of its supervisory remit, the AESIA will be the market surveillance authority and single point of contact in Spain responsible for the conformity assessment of high-risk AI systems

Lever 8

screening score · 2026-10-23

Topics

artificial_intelligence national_strategy supercomputing language_models ai_governance cybersecurity